“There's no end to the rascality of these flinty-hearted bastards...”
-- Sen John Dingle (D.Mich) speaking of Republicans,
quoted on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Nov. 11, 2003
What is the matter with the Republican Party? As one born within a tiny, tree-shaded Republican enclave in Missouri, raised by compassionate family-values-oriented Christian conservatives, and whose entire family remains staunchly, even militantly conservative, I think I have earned the right to ask that question.
So--what the hell is wrong with you guys?
History bumps along from dateline to dateline with no regard for party affiliation. That's why last week during the second presidential debate, when President George Bush slid off his stool, assumed his arms-akimbo “Super Hero” stance and childishly blurted out, “You can run, butcha can't hide,” I was jerked into the realization that it's not possible for such a horrid, vacuous little creature to be the cause of the rampant madness zigzagging throughout our society today. Bush is the effect of it -- the natural result of a cruel, thoughtless and destructive movement within the Republican Party that had lain dormant from its inception, but like Stephen King's evil “Christine”, shivered into life on November 22, 1963.
Both parties have been running and hiding ever since.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct04/Samples1012.htm